Leadname

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  A civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.

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  A city in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States.

leadnoun詞源 1/ˈlɛd/

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  A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).

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  nauticaltransportA plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.

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  A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.

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  mediapublishingtypographyVertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.

  • This copy has too much lead; I prefer less space between the lines.
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  Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.

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  A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.

  • I would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top.
  • These rooms were on a level with the apartments of our friends Bows and Costigan next door at No. 4; and by reaching over the communicating leads, Grady could command the mignonette-box which bloomed in Bows’s window.
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  A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.

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  slangBullets; ammunition.

  • They pumped him full of lead.
  • All my life I want money and power Respect my mind or die from lead shower

leadverb詞源 1/ˈlɛd/

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  To cover, fill, or affect with lead.

  • continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle.
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  historicalmediaprintingpublishingTo place leads between the lines of.

  • to lead a page
  • leaded matter

leadverb詞源 2/ˈliːd/

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  headingTo guide or conduct.

  • a father leads a child
  • a jockey leads a horse with a halter
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  headingTo guide or conduct.

  • The guide was able to lead the tourists through the jungle safely.
  • The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way.
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  headingTo guide or conduct.

  • A good teacher should lead their students to the right answer.
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  headingTo guide or conduct.

  • to lead a political party
  • to lead the search team
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  headingTo guide or conduct.

  • to lead someone to a righteous cause
  • And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil
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  headingTo guide or conduct.

  • The evidence leads me to believe he is guilty.
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  To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.

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  headingTo begin, to be ahead.

  • the big sloop led the fleet of yachts;  the Guards led the attack;  Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages
  • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso As Hesperus, that leads the sun his way.

leadnoun詞源 2/ˈliːd/

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  The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course

  • to take the lead
  • to be under the lead of another
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  Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.

  • the white horse had the lead.
  • to be in the lead
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  An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.

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  ball-gamesbaseballgamesThe situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.

  • The runner took his lead from first.
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  card-gamesdominoesgamesThe act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played

  • your partner has the lead
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  actingbroadcastingentertainmentThe main role in a play or film; the lead role.

  • "You make moving pictures. In jungles and places." "That's me. And I've picked you for the lead in my next picture."
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  actingbroadcastingentertainmentThe actor who plays the main role; lead actor.

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  businessThe person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.

  • John is the development lead on this software product.

leadadj詞源 2/ˈliːd/

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  Foremost.

  • The contestants are all tied; no one has the lead position.
  • For the first time ever, the senior architect and lead developer for a key enterprise system on NASA's ongoing Mars Exploration Rover mission shares the secrets to one of the most difficult technology tasks […]
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  Main, principal, primary, first, chief, foremost.

  • the lead guitarist in band
  • the lead developer on a software project

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